It should go without saying, but all of Progeny's enhancements and
additions are freely licensed and available for incorporation into the
official Debian packages (where this has not already been done), per the
discretion of the appropriate package maintainers.
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Progeny Linux Systems is pleased to announce the availability of its
second beta release of Progeny Debian.
This beta is being released as an independent, installable system. ISO
images are available at <http://archive.progeny.com/images/>. They consist
of:
1. 1 binary Install CD
2. 2 source CDs
3. 1 boot floppy
4. 1 kernel module floppy
Be sure to read the Beta 2 Release Notes, at
<http://archive.progeny.com/RELNOTES.beta2>.
The beta is also available as an upgrade to:
1. Debian 2.2 (potato)
2. "slink-and-a-half" (the VA Linux boxed set edition of Debian 2.1)
3. Debian 2.2 with Helix-GNOME packages
Upgrades from other versions of Debian, or from Debian-based
distributions, are not yet officially supported, but may work.
Progeny would appreciate hearing of any efforts to make these
migrations successful.
Some of the features of this release:
- zero-floppy installation (for systems that support El Torito bootable
CD-ROMs)
- graphical install using GTK+
- noninteractive installation (for clusters and server farms)
- a user-friendly and coherent default GNOME desktop configuration
- recent packages from Debian's testing version (woody)
- debconfization of many packages
- a GNOME front end to debconf
- GTK+-based "configlets" for several critical aspects of system
configuration (time/date, MTA, network setup, XFree86) using debconf on
the back end
- boot support via GRUB, including (optional) automatic migration
from LILO
- package sets, an alternative to task packages in which groups of
packages are defined by a list of member packages in a conffile
- two package set selection tools, apt-pkgset (command line), and
gnome-apt-pkgset (GNOME) which can be used to easily install and remove
package sets, for easy management of popular and useful groups of Debian
packages
- hardware autodetection (based on the "detect" library)
- Linux kernel 2.2.18
- XFree86 4.0.2
- Mozilla 0.7
We encourage people to test this release and report bugs, so our final
release can be as high-quality as possible. You can report bugs to us
via the "bug" tool (which has been updated to send bugs to us), via
email at <bugs@progeny.com>, or through our Web interface at
<http://bugs.progeny.com/>.
For more information, visit our Web site at <http://www.progeny.com/>, or
email us at <info@progeny.com>.
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